by Filippo DinolfoFilippo, Patrick, Brandon, Danreb, and Christian go over the upcoming press events and speculate on what each of the big players will have on tap for their respective shows. We’ll see how we did over the course of the E3.
6/14/2015 Show Notes – E3 Pre-Show
- The non-E3 News and What We’re Playing moved to Let’s Weekend this week.
- Quick Oculus Recap
- Final hardware announced for Q1 2016.
- Oculus Touch prototype controller shown. Haptics and hand position a part of it.
- Rift comes with an Xbox One ccontroller and wireless adapter.
- Can stream Xbox One games to the rift. Not full VR, just uses it as a big display.
- $10 Million Indie seed fund to get development going.
- The Third Parties
- Xseed: “Almost” everything revealed. Ys VIII? Xanadu Next? Was Nitro Blasters it?
- Activision: THPS5, Guitar Hero Live
- From Software: Dark Souls III leaked.
- Capcom: We actually know very little about their non-SF plans. Could be good.
- The Press Conferences
- EA: Mirror’s Edge: Catalyst, Criterion?, Need For Speed, Mass Effect 4
- Ubisoft: Assassins Creed: Syndicate, The Division?, Rainbow Six? BG&E2?
- Bethesda: Doom 4, Fallout 4, Dishonored 2, (Adam Sessler and Morgan Webb hosting the conference tonight–what could be in store?)
- Square Enix
- Japan: Kingdom Hearts III/Mobile stuff/Matsuda’s initiatives?
- Europe: Rise of the Tomb Raider/Deus Ex 4
- Shinra Technologies?
- That hype video! Square Enix’s six secrets?
- Patrick: They can’t get out of announcing Chrono 3 now.
- AMD/PC Gamer
- AMD Fury Card reveal
- R9 300 Series cards/rebranded 200 Series.
- General PC goodness.
- Nintendo
- The next Club Nintendo???
- Starfox
- Fire Emblem if
- Xenoblade Chronicles X
- Bravely Second: End Layer
- Shin Megami Tensei X Fire Emblem
- Generally, the more they flex their IP muscle right now, the further NX is.
- Microsoft
- Crackdown, Scalebound, Quantum Break held back for Gamescom.
- Halo 5/Is Halo still relevant? This is a valid question.
- MCC, departure of Bungie, rise of Call of Duty all damaged Halo.
- Battletoads
- The future of Killer Instinct?
- Casting their lot with Oculus
- They knew going to war with HoloLens was a bad idea.
- Sony
- 2015 – All in for the holidays?
- 2016 – Project Morpheus
- Street Fighter V
- Persona 5
- PS+ five-year anniversary announcements?
- Rumor: Mark Cerny finishing The Last Guardian as PS4 project
- Site info
- www.smashpad.com
- sp-patrick.tumblr.com
- youtube.com/user/SmashPad
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